Helen Barnard is Research Programme Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), the social research policy charity of Quaker origins.

The JRF conducts a range of research into welfare issues, and created the MIS, the Minimum Income Standard, estimating what is an adequate income based on what the public believe to be minimum living standards.

The supported housing expert started up hmsonline to find solutions to housing problems and offer advice to housing providers, and his bedroom tax appeal template was downloaded 240,000 times from just two web sources.

Although initially about housing that provided services, they now also advise general housing landlords.